Lord Louis Mountbatten
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3 days ago · Lord Mountbatten (served March–August 1947) was sent to replace Wavell as viceroy as Britain prepared to transfer its power over India to some “responsible” hands by no later than June 1948. Shortly after reaching Delhi, where he conferred with the leaders of all parties and with his own officials, Mountbatten decided that the situation ...
2 days ago · The Presidential House (Rashtrapati Bhavan), formerly the Viceroy's House, New Delhi, India, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, constructed 1913–30. (more) India’s head of state is the president who is elected to a five-year renewable term by an electoral college consisting of the elected members of both houses of parliament and the elected ...
5 days ago · Lutyens stolidly remained the only meat-eater in the household. While he was designing New Delhi, the new capital of the Raj in India, and the Viceroy’s House (Rashtrapati Bhavan), a palace bigger than Versailles, his wife was campaigning for Indian Independence.
2 days ago · The Presidential House (Rashtrapati Bhavan), formerly the Viceroy's House, New Delhi, India, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, constructed 1913–30. (more) One of the country’s largest urban agglomerations, Delhi sits astride (but primarily on the west bank of) the Yamuna River , a tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 100 miles (160 km ...
3 days ago · When India and Pakistan attained independence at midnight of 14–15 August 1947, Mountbatten was alone in his study at the Viceroy's house saying to himself just before the clock struck midnight that for still a few minutes, he was the most powerful man on Earth.
2 days ago · The war-time act had vested the Viceroy's government with extraordinary powers to quell sedition by silencing the press, detaining political activists without trial, and arresting any individuals suspected of sedition or treason without a warrant. It was increasingly reviled within India due to widespread and indiscriminate use.
5 days ago · Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, built in 1929. Lutyens opened his first office in 1889 when he was 19 – a precocious age, given that many architects do not find their feet before they are 40. Putting his bicycle in the guard’s van of the train from London, he would pedal to sites around Surrey, full of energy, lyricism and jokes.
